GENERATIONS OF LUCK POTTERS

"It has been my goal, all my life, to carry on as much of the old traditional work as I can." --- Sid Luck

Beginning with William Luck, the Luck family has continued the time-honored techniques of wheel-thrown pottery.  In 1957 by age 12, Sid began turning for the J.B. Cole Pottery in Seagrove.  With the encouragement of local potters such as Waymon Cole and Nell Cole Graves, he continued turning off and on for the next 30 years.  A four year hitch in the Marines, stints at Sandhills Community College followed by a degree in chemistry from North Carolina State University and high school teaching jobs in Florida and North Carolina then took precedence over pottery.  Sid opened Luck's Ware on a part-time basis in 1987 at its current location and used both gas and electric kilns.  Three years later Sid left teaching to pursue his pottery dream full time.  In 1994, Sid was honored as the recipient of the Living Treasure of North Carolina Award given by UNC at Wilmington's Museum of World Cultures.  He was the subject of two 1999 documentaries, Crawdad Slip  and Luck's Legacy, by Jim Sharkey.  Sid, as well as sons Jason and Matt, was featured in 2001 in the UNC-TV’s Folkways series on The Potters of Seagrove hosted by David Holt.  In 2006, Sid was nominated by the North Carolina Arts Council for inclusion in the Southern Artistry registry, a joint effort of the Southern Arts Federation (SAF) and the Center for Arts Management & Technology at Carnegie Mellon (CAMT).